Other Lives
Album: For Their Love
Release Date: 2020
USA
Jesse Tabish talks about We Wait
When I was 15, I formed the All American Rejects. This was my high school band. Always there in our everyday life were Tommy and Jennifer, a member’s older sister and brother-in-law. Tommy was the older brother I never had. Kind and wise, he was my mentor and family to me.
Tommy was shot and killed at the age of 25, on the morning of 30th November. Jennifer, his wife, had hired his murderer.
This event completely devastated and shattered my reality. I quit the Rejects and was very lost. I soon found the piano and started moving towards a deeper place inside, artistically, which has shaped me to this day. For many years, I had avoided this trauma and couldn’t touch the subject. I pushed it out, only for it to haunt me more recently.
Writing this song is the way for me to heal and remember my old pal, Tommy.
Lyrics: We Wait
We wait
We’re not in a hurry
O we need You Lord
We wait
All our cares and worries
We lay aside for You
O how we long to see Your face
O how we long for Your embrace
We wait
We’re not afraid to tarry
We yearn for You Lord
We wait
For Your mighty wind to carry us
Into Your presence Lord
And as we fill this house with praise
May Your holy fire fill this place
As we wait
And as we fill this house with praise
Let Your holy fire fill this place
We wait
Tracklist: For Their Love
1. “Sound of Violence”
2. “Lost Day”
3. “Cops”
4. “All Eyes/For Their Love”
5. “Dead Language”
6. “Nites Out”
7. “We Wait”
8. “Hey Hey I“
9. “Who’s Gonna Love Us”
10. “Sideways”